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Camden Nov. 19 '87 Thank you & double-thank you, my dear young man, for your affectionate letter & money
My little canary is singing blithely.
I enclose you my last pieces—Yes, indeed we shall be glad to see you—Mrs D will & I will—Meanwhile love
Eakins is here painting my portrait—it seems strong (I don't know but powerful) & realistic—very different
Camden Nov. 29 [1887] latter p m As I write I am sitting in my big chair— cold to-day here—sunny however—Morse
Sir, Having added the Editorship of this Magazine to my duties on the Pall Mall Gazette my thoughts at
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. II.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I, with silent tread, Walk the spot my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
I gave it draining regards that fixed it in my mind.
I regard it as a noble work, & am very glad of this rich honor done to my poet, & I want to congratulate
It is a fine, nay a great, work, in my opinion.
Fairchild & her husband are going to drive out & see my Cox photo, some time.
spell—Ab't as usual with me—No sight of Rhys yet—the artist Eakin of Phila: comes off & on painting my
Milwaukee, Dec 11th 1887 My dear Walt I received your letter the other day—also the papers with the enclosures—and
you again Probably as Jess has told you I am poking around from place to place spending about 1/3 of my
best of it" I hope, dear Walt, that you will keep in good spirits during the bad weather—I find in my
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey For the present send Ernest Rhys's letters addressed here to my care
You should see my old mother— spry today, gets about without a stick, not bowed, nor over much wrinkled
They all came down, my brothers, sister, & the three children, & didn't get back to bed again till past
I find my brother a very democratic individual—rather opinionated & too "damn sure" to get on easy with
The first my brother said when I showed him the Hicks picture was—"He's the man who said the blood of
Traubel he later said: "I can see defects; this forehead, for instance, is not quite as it should be; but my
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Dec. 28 '87 Thanks, my dear friend, for your kind letter & (Christmas
Ah dear old friend as I hear from her young lips those soul stirring words of yours my heart strings
My children join me in love and good wishes. Sincerely yours Mrs Anna M Kerr P.S.
Whitman is thinking here of the hymn sometimes called "Calvary," beginning "Come, O my heart," with the
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Gilchrist,and the intimacy which my brother,my friend Mr.
"My great anxiety about my wife lastsstill.
"My Dear Mrs.
"My Dear Mrs.
My Dear Mrs.
—"Step-along, my bullies!" Come, bullies, hop, now! hop now!" (9 Mixture of passengers .
My situation is rather a pleasant one.
There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.
My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life
After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.
My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.
Retitled To the Pending Year, the poem appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. To the year 1889
Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My
red1888poetryhandwrittenprinted1 leaf; Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem O Captain
My Captain!
1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American National Literature, first published in Good-Bye My
Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
hun.00011xxx.00320HM 11207Queries To My Seventieth YearTo my seventieth year1888poetry1 leafhandwritten
; Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May
Queries To My Seventieth Year
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: A Backward Glance on My
Own Road (1884), How I Made a Book (1886), and My Book and I (1887).
Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: A Backward Glance on My
Own Road (1884), How I Made a Book (1886), and My Book and I (1887).
Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My
Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).
labeled it "Walt Whitman in his 70th year," and claimed "the picture is in the nature of a surprise: my
Wilson of Glasgow, encouraging me to go on & get subscribers for my "Walt Whitman,"— saying that I may
you be willing (I hardly dare to ask it) to send me for two yr book of addresses (sent by Express at my
(I keep up my bibliogr. record always (in the "Whitman")] I made a trip to the art museum recently to
Baxter has gone to Arizona, & left bust in my care.
Kennedy My idea is to charge $5. or a guinea for the vol. & print it in good style.
Camden 3rd Jany. 188 8 Your card of 24 th Dec. came two days ago, not a little to my relief.
He lives in the next street to Cowley St. from which by the way I may have to move shortly as my sister
this at the Reading Room of British Museum, & must end it rather hurriedly having to run off to meet my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Sometime when you are sending you can return me the article for my collection.
I keep up my spirits as well as I can, but find it all pretty depressing.
I expect to go to Boston on Friday or Saturday—after which my address will be to the care of Kennedy
to persuade myself that from this New Year forward everything is to be first-rate with me & with all my
Grand Pacific Hotel Honoured Sir— & Dear Poet— I beg you to accept my appreciative thanks for your great
constipation, & bad kidney tribulation, day & night—but I am up & dressed & sitting here by the fire, & my
Baxter has gone to Arizona, & left bust in my care.
Kennedy My idea is to charge $5. or a guinea for the vol. & print it in good style.
Sometime when you are sending you can return me the article for my collection.
I keep up my spirits as well as I can, but find it all pretty depressing.
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
I believe gets to the office—I write a little—short bits, to order mostly—spend the time seated in my
This will excuse my dilatoriness as a correspondent) Rhys & I go up to lunch with Sanborn Friday—Rhys
Nothing delights me more & my limitations are so many.
Jan 10 '88 Am sitting here by the fire alone early afternoon & will write you a few lines—have had my
machine—After a dark storm, (with snow,) nearly a week, the sun is out this afternoon & there is a half-thaw—My
Nothing delights me more—my limitations are so many.
By coming on I could bring my MS with me, & stay three days at least.
I have already made out a long one—going over all my scraps & records for the purpose Our brilliant young
Will send you my Herald article on him when it appears.
—The box of chocolate & cocoa came—delicious—many thanks—I had some for my breakfast this morning—Remain
Lincoln and celebrating ill contain the Russell Lowell election from , state papers and lett to inclu My
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.
lines of greeting in Munyon's Illustrated World, combining as they do the cradle and evening song of my
My brother writers have been very generous to me, and I heartily thank them for it.
My domestic skies are not pleasant & I seem depressed & restless most of the time.
Indeed I am thinking strongly of selling my place. I am sick of the whole business of housekeeping.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Camden Saturday Night Jan 14 '88 Have had my supper (some rice pudding & a cup of tea) & am sitting here
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Camden New Jersey Saturday Night Jan 14 '88 My best respects & thanks to you, & to the Club—but I am
been very bleak & cold here but better & sunny to day—I am quite unwell, but keep up & around & eat my
meals in moderation—(an old fellow who comes here said to me as I was eating my supper "No extremes
On January 13, 1888, Burroughs wrote: "My domestic skies are not pleasant & I seem depressed & restless
Indeed I am thinking strongly of selling my place. I am sick of the whole business of housekeeping.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
lines of greeting in Munyon's Illustrated World, combining as they do the cradle and evening song of my
My brother writers have been very generous to me and I heartily thank them for it" (see also Horace Traubel
or 15th) just rec'd—I am certainly no worse in re the late physical ailments—easier more likely —ate my
dinner with relish—(cold beef, potatoes & onions)—Eakins has been today painting my portrait—it is altogether
Thanks for the Harvard Monthly I have read it & sent it on—cold, stormy, snowy weather here—have had my
I am pottering along—certainly no worse in my late physical ailments—rather better possibly—the wind
this mn'g from NY Herald, from J G B[ennett] himself ask'g me to write for the paper —I have just had my
Kossabone"; February 27, "Mannahatta"; February 29, "Paumanok"; March 1, "From Montauk Point"; March 2, "My
"Life"; April 16, "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs"; April 23, "To-day and Thee"; May 2, "Queries to My